Mubasshir Murshed, fondly known as "Mub" by his friends, is a 17-year-old mathematics genius who has been given the rare honour, for someone of his age, of being published in a national academic ...

The minimum point is the minimum y value that the parabola reaches. The maximum point is the maximum y value that the parabola reaches. The symmetry of the parabola is created because each x value is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In mathematics, a quadratic is a type of problem that deals with a variable multiplied by itself ...

Many, many years ago, during my Algebra 2 class, we had the classic assignment of graphing parabolas. After a while of “select X, calculate Y,” I came to the conclusion that there had to be a simpler ...

E-mail from listeners prompts two corrections: One about Latin confusion and the other about the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. MANY listeners wrote in to point out that the Arch is not a parabola, as we ...